As a part of our Mission STEMCAP programming series, we provide teachers and students with reading materials, questions, and other resurces to use and refer to throughout the program. Here are some of the materials we have put together for our first five segments of Mission STEMCAP.
Biodiversity Loss
Biodiversity Loss Concept Packet
Biodiversity Loss Reading Packet
Biodiversity Loss Guided Reading Questions
Biodiversity Loss Reading-Based Discussion Questions
Climate Change
Climate Change Guided Reading Questions
Climate Change Reading-Based Discussion Questions
Extinction
Extinction Guided Reading Questions
Overconsumption
Overconsumption Concept Packet
Overconsumption Reading Packet
Overconsumption Guided Reading Questions
Overconsumption Reading-Based Discussion Questions
Pollution
STEMCAP seeks out articles that expand beyond students’ typical textbook style readings and highlight the cutting-edge research that comes out of current on-going science.
Artist combines nostalgia and nature
Citizen Scientists needed to study Wasatch wildlife
Coming: The sixth mass extinction?
Cool Jobs- Finding new uses for nature’s poisons
Genetically modified salmon: food or ‘frankenfish’?
Life Is The Network, Not The Self
Spiders – Weird meals show how topsy-turvy Amazon food webs can be
Take me out to the extinction game
The Great Barrier Reef, Eighth Grade Reading Passage
The Most Wonderful Smelling Time of the Year
These Stunning Botanical Images are Blueprints of the Past
These women tackle science in the lab, classroom and far, far beyond
When We Love Our Food So Much That It Goes Extinct
What in the world is a Cyanotype?
Mission STEMCAP: Pollution Reading Packet
Mission STEMCAP: Overconsumption Reading Packet
Mission STEMCAP: Extinction Reading Packet
Looking for scientific readings and activities at your students’ reading level? These websites provide a variety of science content aimed at a wide range of reading levels. Some sites even provide alternate versions of readings that lower the reading level so students in your class can read the same article even if they are a little behind the level of the rest of the class.
